Wow, that was an embarrassment. Defense played well enough to win, but again didn't dictate anything, never got a short field. Offensively can't add to what's been said - worst we've had since - hell, even the Maddox and Stewart and mediocre 1980's teams could run the ball - so maybe worst in my lifetime.

Tennesse came into Pitt and said "we'll spot you two points, give you the ball to start both halves, and we'll only score one touchdown" and we still couldn't win.

WOnder what we can get someone to trade us for the rights to draft Clowney.

The team was horribly unprepared yesterday. The offense has no ability to run the football and no desire to stretch the field...a horrible combination. That, plus losing the turnover battle and injury "battle," means this team is destine for a whole bunch of nothing.

In all seriousness, yesterday was the first time that I questioned Tomlin's ability to effectively coach this team.

Injuries are something beyond their control. Even the talent level (at this point in the "season") is kinda beyond their control. They just don't have as many playmakers, particularly on defense, that they used to have.

That's the stuff that they can control and to me, it didn't look like they worked on that shit at all. Kinda felt like they strolled into this game with a "eh, it's just Tennessee..." attitude.

Somebody needs to shoot Tomlin a memo or an email or a tweet or whatthefuckever and let him know that the preseason is NOT 5 games long. This team is far from great, but they're not as bad as they looked yesterday. And, that falls on the coaches. They need to come up with a better plan, work on it and fucking get it done. Primetime next week.

The Steelers need a shake-up, and I think it should be at the GM level. Colbert is done, IMO. The lack of talent and depth on this team is appalling and frightening.

I still believe in Tomlin, if only because the defense has performed at the highest levels every year he's been here, and we shouldn't take that for granted.

But given the fact that we have a franchise QB and an elite defense, Colbert's job is not that hard. All he's got to do is field a minimally-competent offensive line and find some playmakers. I would trade our 10 other starters on offense for any other team's 10 other starters -- without even looking.

Our drafts, our free agents signings of the last few years -- all have been bottom-of-the-league awful.

I think we're all pretty much on the same page here. Neither Colbert nor Tomlin are the best, nor the worst, in the biz. Look at some of the Patriots' recent drafts, e.g. But what's particularly maddening is that both seem blind, in lockstep, to what is obvious to most casual observers: preseason prep, time management and in-game adjustments, OL, ST, and secondary are all problems. Not once-and-done problems, but whack-a-mole, recurring problems. The fixes seem cursory, like an afterthrought.

Preseason. Every year we bitch because the team comes out looking rough, herky-jerky, nowhere near as polished as some teams. I thought this preseason had to be some gross anomaly, because it was ridiculous to consider that we would field that slop in the regular season. Don't the coaches and GM do any sort of self-eval, the way they do with players, to improve processes? (Evidently not.) The only way to improve and to stay sharp is to constantly turn the critic's eye toward the man in the mirror, and not just after a down year. We just do the same old same old, the standard is the standard, we have our ways and we're sticking to them. Copy ad paste WRT to game-time decisions. Tomlin needs a sidekick geek coach for time management decisions, making sure he knows how to pace the game (esp. in the last 5 minutes of each half).

OL has been comical. We did make two solid investments (Pouncey, DeCastro) and two guys I was not sold on (Adams, Gilbert). I'm hoping Adams can improve this year, but I think Gilbert is a POS. Foster has zero pedigree but some solid play under the old OL coach; that's not helping him now, a he looks like a fish out of water. Depth is idiotically bad. We blow so many late draft picks when we should be doing some sort of value hunting for OL depth. And now look at what we have. Case in point: R4 we took Ta'amu last year, I said he wasn't a 3-4 NT despite his size; 3 picks later the Cards too OT Bobby Massie, who I did like a lot, and who has been a solid player for them. Ta'amu gone; OT depth nonexistent. Fuck.

ST, hard to say what the issue is but let's spin the wheel again. Bad field position has been killing us for years, but let's just hope and pray.

Secondary, sort of the same thing as the OL, except without any high draft investments. We'e been lucky guys like Cortez can come in and contribute, but it's going to take more than finding R4 diamond in the dreck to turn this group around. We kep recycling guys like Gay and McFadden "because the know the system," when their limitations are evident. I'm hoping this year's R4 Shamarko is another nice late find, but it's a passing league. And we don't other to invest in CB or S. Seriously, your CB and S depth these days has to be pretty solid, and some of these guys seem to be learning on the fly. Or ST only.